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Are You Getting Ripped Off?

Did you know you’re entitled to wages and fringe benefits on prevailing wage jobs worth up to $80 per hour or more? You could even be owed lost wages!

It Happens More Often Than You Think

“Drive funneled payments to carpenters through sham subcontractors to pay the carpenters less than what the state’s overtime and prevailing wage laws require and to dodge the cost of other legally required benefits and protections” – Chicago Sun Times, read more

What Is Prevailing Wage?

A prevailing wage is the basic hourly rate of wages and benefits paid to a number of similarly employed workers in a given geography. Policymakers can use prevailing compensation levels to set wage and benefit floors for workers in the locality-for example, construction workers on government-funded construction projects in Missouri, Illinois or Kansas. Prevailing wage laws ensure that government dollars do not undercut local wage and benefit standards, prevent a race to the bottom among publicly funded contractors, support good jobs, and provide good value to taxpayers.

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Have you been taken advantage of on a Prevailing Wage job? The Carpenters Union can help

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